Richard Bak





Richard Bak

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RICHARD BAK is a Detroit-based journalist and the author of twenty-five books, including 'Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire' and 'Peach: Ty Cobb in His Time and Ours.' He has received three ForeWord magazine Book-of-the-Year awards, the Stuart D. and Vernice M. Gross Prize for Literature, and two Emmys for his work as writer and coproducer of "Stranded at the Corner," a feature-length documentary about the fight to save Detroit's Tiger Stadium.


Average rating: 3.88 · 72 ratings · 16 reviews · 28 distinct works
Boneyards: Detroit Under Gr...
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010
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Peach: Ty Cobb in His Time ...
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Henry and Edsel: The Creati...
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003
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Ty Cobb: His Tumultuous Lif...
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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Detroitland: A Collection o...
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The Corner: A Century of Me...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999
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Joe Louis: The Great Black ...
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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Detroit: 1900-1930
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999
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A Place for Summer: A Narra...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998
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The CSS Hunley: The Greates...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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